More than six decades of stardom, Cher has won the hearts of fans around the world for her songs, films and breathtaking fashion sense.
But perhaps her most unforgettable creation is her public persona.
The iconic star is constantly turning heads and is always ready with a naughty joke or some inspiring advice.
In recent years, she has become a beloved presence on X, formerly Tweetwhere she often posts emoji-strewn rants, much to the delight of her followers.
Now aged 78, the Believe hitmaker has put her wit and wisdom between hard covers for the first half of her two-part memoir.
Following the publication of the first part of her memoir on November 19, DailyMail.com looks back at some of the Oscar winner’s most iconic quotes…
Following the release of the first part of her memoir on November 19, DailyMail.com recalls Cher’s most iconic quotes; pictured on October 19 as she is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio
About the empowerment of women
“My mother said to me, ‘You know, honey, one day you’re going to have to settle down and marry a rich man.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m a rich man.'”
‘Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that doesn’t matter, because they make a mess of it. We break down their control and take the parts we want. Some women find it a difficult task, but that is not the case.’
‘Women must use their power, that is absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take no for an answer. And if you can’t go straight, you go around the corner.’
‘Women are the real architects of society.’
About love
“A girl can wait for the right guy to come along, but in the meantime, that doesn’t mean she can’t have a great time with the wrong one.
“If I hadn’t met younger men in my life, I would never have dated because older men just didn’t like me that much.”
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at any time in your life.”
‘I love desserts, I love men. I think men are the coolest. But you don’t really need them to live.’
“Old friends are good friends.”
“The problem with some women is that they don’t worry about anything and then they marry him.”
Cher, pictured in 1983, once recalled her mother saying to her, “You know, honey, one day you’re going to have to settle down and marry a rich man,” and she replied, “Mom, I’m a rich man.”
“We all invent ourselves,” said Cher, pictured in 1978 in a costume made by her longtime collaborator Bob Mackie: “Some of us just have more imaginations than others.”
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at any time in your life,” said Cher, pictured with her first husband Sonny Bono in 1977
“If I hadn’t met younger men in my life, I would never have dated because older men just didn’t like me that much,” said Cher, pictured with her boyfriend Alexander Edwards, 38, in 2022
Cher has long had a penchant for younger men, like Rob “Bagel Boy” Camilletti, whom she dated in the 1980s when she was 40 and he was 22.
About her career
‘I feel like a bumper car. If I hit a wall, I’ll back up and go a different direction. And I’ve hit a lot of damn walls in my career. But I won’t stop. I think that might be my best quality: I just don’t stop.’
“It was easier to divorce two men than to get into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.”
‘I don’t consider myself a singer, I don’t have that kind of self-confidence. I want to put on a show. I want to dazzle people. For me, everything goes through my eyes first. Even when I was doing The Star Spangled Banner, I was wondering, ‘What should I wear?’
‘I’ve spent my whole life with people who either loved me or hated me. And I mean, you want to be loved, but at the end of the day it’s like, fuck it.’
‘We all invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imaginations than others.”
To Madonna
“She’s incredibly creative because she’s not incredibly talented. She’s not pretty, but she’s rude.”
‘It seems to me that if you get the kind of praise she got, and you can do what you want to do, you have to be a little more magnanimous and a little less ac***.’
‘I never hated her, I just thought she was a b****. Actually, I have a lot of respect for her.’
‘I think she is very creative and I think she does a lot with the talent she has.’
“I’ve spent a lifetime with people either loving me or hating me,” said Cher, pictured at the 1978 Oscars: “And I mean, you want to be loved, but at the end of the day it’s like, fuck it.’
Cher is pictured with Bob Mackie at the 1988 Oscars, where she won Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck opposite Nicolas Cage
“I never hated her, I just thought she was a b****,” Cher once remarked about Madonna, with whom she is pictured at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, DC
Cher released The Memoir: Part One (pictured) on November 19, with a second part expected in 2025
About growing older
‘I hate it. What, should I say I like it? No, I don’t. Any woman who is honest will say it’s not that much fun.’
“But you know, my mother has a saying—and I’m not sure I agree with her—but she said, ‘If you don’t pay attention to age, you won’t be paid attention to.’ And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t believe it.’
“Someone said to me, ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock ‘n’ roll?’ I said, ‘You better check with Mick Jagger.’”
“At some point you have to give up your career, unless you’re Tony Bennett or Betty White.”
‘I would do anything to be seventy again.’